I take your point about the variation in the amount of protection different skirts provide – it’s much greater than the variation in the thickness of different trousers. That can justify requiring skirts to be lifted (regardless of the sex of the wearer) which, in turn, can justify a lighter caning. There is still an unfairness if trouser wearers can be punished immediately in class but skirt wearers have to wait (knowing their fate) to be punished in private later. Punishing both in class would be unfair to skirt wearers because of the added embarrassment so it would be fairer to punish trouser wearers in private too. In that case, however, they could also be caned on their knickers/underpants so your justification for caning skirt wearers (or girls in general) more lightly has gone.
SCHOOL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT12
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Caning from of the Times90
Friday, May 5th, 1967, BOY WITNESSES WERE ‘LYING’ HEAD DENIES DICTATORSHIP William Michael Byrd, aged 38, the headmaster of...
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The Cane in UK Schools11
It appears as though despite efforts to set out guidelines for the use of corporal punishment by local authorities...
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Slippered at School12
I agree that boys were slippered a lot more than girls and that usually girls would be slippered by...
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Birching and “Severe Caning”at Charlie Chaplins School2
The general consensus seems to be that caning was used,with more serious cases being caned more severly by the...
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A Window to Spanking22
I obeyed, head hanging low, for I didn’t have any real choice in the matter. Mrs J called her...
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Mrs Trosper19
Mrs Trosper then grabbed my hand and within seconds I was over her knee with my pants and underpants...
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Beltings We Got Out Of9
I told him once, just for a joke, that my father was part owner in a horse and he...
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Corporal Punishment Public or Private15
It worked though! Slipperings were commonplace events, most days you would see at least five or six in front...